Man - the human being
From Anthroposophy
Man, know thyself.
This covers Man, or the human being, as a microcosmos .. and its mapping or correspondence to the macrocosmos.
1. Man - the human being
This section starts by looking at Man's bodily principles developed during previous planetary stages (as well as the blueprint of future developments), then the three functional subsystems. That gives, for Man today, a "4 by 3" view or mental framework to reason in.
Next the link is made with the macrocosmos and the spiritual hierarchies.
- Introduction to Man as microcosmos
- Man's bodily principles
- the human physical body
- the human etheric body
- the human astral body
- the Virtues
- the human 'I' (or threefold soul)
- Man's higher triad of spirit self, life spirit and spirit man (or manas, budhi, atman)
- the Human aura
- Man as a threefold being: the three subsystems
- Spiritual scientific physiology (organs, planets, ..)
- Man: an integrated view
- Man and the macrocosmos - or 'Man living hieroglyph of the living cosmos'
- Man and the spiritual hierarchies
- soul activity and the faculties of
- Thinking Feeling Willing (TFW)
- Walking Speaking Thinking (WST)
- Man's functioning
- the human senses
- etherization of blood, damming up between heart and head, Ganganda Greida (on Parsifal page)
- Man past and future - evolutionary aspects and development (sphinx, centaur, ..)
- Group souls of humanity
- Human races
- Humanity is getting younger
- bodily principles and subsystems
- evolution of organs
2. Cosmic breathing : Interaction between Microcosmos (Man) and Macrocosmos , or: basic functions in human functioning
- overview of rhythms in Man
- human breath
- Process of perception
- relation of breath to blood pulse
- rhythm of a day of sleeping/waking and one Earth breath
- rhythm of a year
- Man's life development
- One life - Man's cycle of reincarnation - of life between birth and death, and between death and re-birth